Spectators at Bolling Field, Washington , USA, watch planes completing the last leg of their circumnavigation of the globe. The first circumnaviga

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Spectators at Bolling Field, Washington , USA, watch planes completing the last leg of their circumnavigation of the globe. The first circumnavigation of the globe was completed on September 28, 1924, when two US Army Douglas World Cruisers returned to Washington. Their flight time was 371 hours and 7 minutes, with an average speed of 78 miles per hour over a distance of 26,503 miles. This photograph is from an archive of images dating from the 1860s to the 1920s, collected for 'The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States' (1925-1929).

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Photo credit: © MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH DIVISION OF ART, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS/NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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